It is a pleasant work environment. It appeared to have a high employee and management turn over at that time. They had a nice celebration for the holidays in January do to variety of religions. This was very nice each year. They had nice company cookouts for employee and there families.

Brotherly atmosphere but not the best of managers. I love the people I work with but not the people I work for. It is a great job if you need experience and clinical hours if you pan to go back to school for PA or something.

RAA is an excellent & progressive EMS agency when it comes to protocols and advancements in Emergency Medical Care. The Operational Medical Director is phenomenal, promoting and developing progressive protocols. The management is easy to work with, and the direct supervisors are very approachable. Co-workers were generally great to work with, and created an overall positive work environment, though it was a bit cliquey at times. The job was both physically and emotionally taxing, yet also rewarding. The community was generally a pleasure to work with, as were the other Public Safety personnel.

Once you find a partner you enjoy working with and work well with this employer can be fun to work for. Unfortunately supervisors show up randomly on calls and take over, the compensation is almost fast food wages, the shift bid system is designed to burn people out especially new people as they end up stuck on horrible shifts with worse hours, advancing is next to impossible beyond paramedic, and the degree of politics involved is bordering on ridiculous.

Very busy in HR, learned a lot about EMS and what they do. The Authority is a rare jewel in the City of Richmond. Employers come from around the world to learn what we do here. Top management is strong, line management is young and trainable. The hardest part of the job is maintaining compliance with all of the HR laws. The most enjoyable part of the job is maintaining compliance, interaction with employees, training and being a strategic partner in the process.

RAA is an urban, high performance EMS system that operates using a System Status Management Theory.

Richmond is a place where newer medics want to work because of the call volume and diversity of calls. Here you get anything from psychiatric calls up to multi-system traumas and ANYTHING in between. If you want experience, exposure and some moderate excitement; then this may be the place for you. If you're looking to grow, develop and progress into a management position and stake out your retirement plan for years to come, then this probably isn't for you.

As a field employee of RAA, you are just that....a field employee. You can work your bumm off day/night in and day/night out, mark up early and on-time every shift, never call out sick, and you will guarantee yourself one thing and one thing only; an "atta boy" on your yearly evaluation. There are numerous people who have been here 10+ years through the growing pains of the past and they have formed their bonds and ties. You can try to stand out and shine all you want but there are gatekeepers that will help remind you of your place in the organization. You are on the truck to one thing, go and do as you are told.

Should you happen to break out of the glass cage and be recognized as a "leader", you will be helped to understand just how much power you wield and just how fragile that power is. Your social circle will be encouraged to not contain the field providers at a close level.

It is very easy to become disgruntled here but there is a little something to be said for the streamlined operations. If they would only understand that people are not machines.